We value new experiences now because without that prospect we’d be bored, but is there any reason why new experiences necessarily forms part of a future with entirely different forms of life? There could be alien species that value experiences the more they repeat them; to them, new experiences may be seen as unnecessary (I think that’s unlikely under evolutionary mechanisms, but not under sentient design).
My point was that we value new experiences. Future forms of life, like humans after we can alter our preferences at root level, might not find that preference as necessary. So we could reach a level where we don’t have to worry about bad possibilities, and call it “paradise”.
We value new experiences now because without that prospect we’d be bored, but is there any reason why new experiences necessarily forms part of a future with entirely different forms of life? There could be alien species that value experiences the more they repeat them; to them, new experiences may be seen as unnecessary (I think that’s unlikely under evolutionary mechanisms, but not under sentient design).
I’m not interested in the values of hypothetical aliens, especially those dreamt up only to provide imaginary counterexamples.
My point was that we value new experiences. Future forms of life, like humans after we can alter our preferences at root level, might not find that preference as necessary. So we could reach a level where we don’t have to worry about bad possibilities, and call it “paradise”.